I wish you (i. e.) The Vows

I love poems and I love translating poems as well. I speak native portuguese, but in my own personal will to write in English, I decided one day that if I could translate poems, then I could tell I'd know English. But that was just after I dreamed in English, and I used to say that the day I dreamed in English would be the day I'd be fluent in it.

So far I figured that maybe what makes a person fluent in English in the 21st century is the probably the same reason the french René Déscartes had to know Latin in his time to be well versed in the texts available to him at the time.

And so I decided to share a new translation, of a new poem, that I recently got in contact with, and wishing that it finds a place in your soul as well. And it will.

The translation will improve with time and, of course, with the help of you who are visiting this page. The original follows below too for those who enjoy reading in other languages. These are certainly wise words, so save them well.

Happy new year!

I wish you (i. e) The Vows
by Sérgio Jockymann
translated by Leonardo Dias

First I wish you that you love
and that, loving, be loved as well
and if you are not, forget it soon.

And if you forget, let go the sorrow.

I wish you, then, not to live like this,

but if you do, know how to do it without despair.

I wish you friends as well

even those mean and mindless

that are brave and faithfull,

And that you have at least one of them

that you can trust without a doubt.

And because life is like this,

I also wish you to have enemies.

Not too many, not too few,

but the exact amount so that you can, once in a while

ask yourself about

your own certainties.

And let at least one among them be fair

so that you can not be too safe.

I wish you to be useful,

but not unreplaceable.

And that when bad times come,

When nothing rests anymore,

this usefulness will be enough to keep you up.

I also wish you to be tolerant,

Not with those that makes little mistakes, because this is easy,

But with those that do it a lot and irremediably,

And that making good use of this tolerance

Let you be an example to other people.

I wish that you, being young,

do not be in hurry to be mature,

And that being mature, do not insist in getting younger

And that being old, do not dedicate yourself to despair.

Because each age has its pleasure and pain and

we must let it flow off us.

I wish you, by the way, that you be sad,

Not the whole year, but only for a day.

But that in that day you find out

That the daily smile is good,

The usual smile is dull and the constant smile is insane.

I wish you that you find out

with maximum urgency

Above all and in respect of everything, that there are the oppressed,

The unfairness and unhapiness around you.

I wish you that you nourish a cat

and feed a bird and listen to it

singing exultantly its morning song

because then you would be happy for nothing.

I wish you that you plant a seed,

no matter how small,

and that you watch it grow,

so that you know from how many

lives are made a tree.

I wish you, also, that you have money,

because it is necessary to be practical.

And that at least once a year

You put some of them

in front of you and say "This is mine",

just to keep clear who owns who.

I also wish that no one of your beloved ones die,

For him and for you,

But that if someone die, that you may cry

Without being sorry and suffering, without being guilty.

I also wish you that, being a man,

that you have a good wife,

and that being a woman,

that you have a good man,

and that you love each other now, tomorrow and in the following days,

and that whenever you are tired and happy,

I wish you that there will be love to start over.

And that if all of these things happen,

I will have nothing else to wish you.

Original in Portuguese

The poet's mission

I write, I put in the order of the letters,

being someone who has a musical thought,

about Love, Life and the Order of the genes

that I randomically got.

Mysteries of stars and of the planets

decyphered and revealed in the role

of people, who are hunting for a treasure:

their own piece of clear and blue heaven.

The poet's mission is to verse about the rare

sense that is in the eternal now

while life comes, teaches and goes.

So, even more words I will spare

because inside, what I feel, revigorates, somehow,

my soul and whoever reads my soul.

Noble Search

The Truth is only one
The versions are two
and both are dressed
they are naked lies
like the fake truth
null, somehow
irreversible when invested
with a truth from other times
unrecognizable as lies
before or now.

The infinite versions of the truth
are lies that time deceases
and History
only dis-cover and re-veal
for new considerations, a new story
about the destroyed world of before

And now?
The noble seeker of the truth
darkness walker, intense fighter
that has a conscience as adversary
knows that the science of the truth is the knowledge of the pain
because there's no painless truth
and the most right truths die
just like life.

To tell you the truth
there are many prophecies
that tells that the world ends
that the sky falls
that the sun vanishes.

Actually, in the end, when
there will be no more eyes to see the world
that is exactly what will happen.

Then the just tastes the good flavor of the truth that is known.

In the short span of life
of the portion of truth that we can see
let it shine and protect us
so mote it be.

Effects

When building your house, build a temple

within

as it is

nothing is

what it seems

The lack of finding

and dealing with causes

will cause effects

do not turn away

do not mind again

it attracts

Show off is vanitas

avoid the void

Just do what is right

It turns out

if you have a good rule

you do not need any fight

just Light

Help your self

by going within

as it is

nothing is

what it seems

And be prepared

for what you might think is coming

since all of the causes

are with you

all you need is to Know Thyself.

But time

that time that erases and forgives

and that thankfully forgets

no matter your eyes are black or blue

no matter if on foot or in a jet

your mind weaves

the true fabric of dreams

you call Life.

Choose your effects

Hint? Look for causes

Create

The time to create
is over
because it never
existed
Everything that has passed
vanished
And what was created
has only been transformed.

It is because time is fragile
just like gravity
and thought is more agile
than happiness.

To build your own fate
Know your own death
find yourself stronger
and create your beautiful path
without tripping in vices

Because the time to rest one who creates knows
and the hour to create has the right days
that is why we draw with our dreams
and why we build with our hands and open eyes.

But if any creation needs time
and if time is mere ilusion of our thoughts
of the tender feeling of the heartbeats
from the musical rhythm of life
to create any art is always music
in eternal rhythm of change

Time to create
is now
And if you do not have the time
create the hour

The Truth

If there is one single Truth it is unknown
If we can access it through words either
If it is the same even if inside out
or if it is the same for a mad man or genious
All I know is that from the life lines I weave
I create a carpet made with strong colors
That can survive through the lifes and deaths
of the moral buildings I measure.
In History there are temples that go up and down
to the heights of Glory or straight to the ground
and Truths from the yes and Truths from the no
but the only one truth remains:
We are stars, we attract and heat
We die and live, it is always the same story
Truth shall be that to the place we head into
We will Love much and we will Love more.

Each

Each one of us has one "I Am"
and a Law that makes us Right into the way
through a path of lights left on that you can
walk: even the night looks like day

Each one of us is a Star
with Light and Gravity to heat and attract
the things that we want or the soul that we are
and the destiny we are going to get

Each one of us has a Sense
and a Power that makes us go to every side
we have a Heart to make our journey intense
through the lows and highs of the tide

You have everything on your own
if you have Wisdom and Understanding
all you need is to put on your Crown
and claim yourself your own kingdom's king.

Each one of us has one Faith
and a Hope that binds us all in this Universe
of Love which shall be our fate
and what is hidden within every verse.

Through spirals

The babies' spine grows in a spiral, a form that shows itself in many life forms. We are condemned to the eternal spining around the Sun and our Sun is so condemned to do the same around the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. The fact is that gravity is the force behind the forms of structures in the Universe.

We spin. And the spinning policy of our galaxy brings to us the natural aptitude to spin. The compass of the spirit can be seen observing dancers. Ballet has one of its most difficult movements the spin in tip of one foot, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, according to how the
arms are in this movement.

In the same way, a capoeira fighter is able to spin quickly to dodge his adversary, using the advantage of the body spin as a way to surprise through rapidness.

The universal movement of spinning can also be seen when water goes down the sink. In the north hemisphere, the spiral goes into the opposite way of that in the south hemisphere thanks to the laws of attraction. Not only from the gravity of the planet, but also according to the gravity of the galaxy.

The relativity of both structures can be comprehended as we study the phenomenon of the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Last observations have shown that this black hole moves much faster than we thought. In the same way, our galaxy movies and the relative movement of our planet follows the same rules.

If the Milky Way spiral is the mold of our possible universe, we now have that life, existing in this harmonic balance and depending on the central attraction of an object with a bigger mass is nothing more than the consequence of this initial rule of the constitution of our Universe corner. In the same way, the balance of this same structure that appears in the Milky Way is present in nature, influecing life forms and gravity structures that allow life.

Atoms attract themselves mutually according to the possible chemical reactions. The maintainance of two united atoms is possible because of the cohesion energy of the electrons. They provide an harmonic union of matter forming different substances with different properties.

Life could not exist if there was not a unique cohesion and harmony with the universe that is inside the beings of our planet. Nature searches for balance and sometimes it will search of it in the most radical ways or with the most fantastic experiences. But one can realize that there's something in common in the whole nature: the force of attraction.

The same magnetism that allows our space vehicle in this trip to the center of the Milky Way is represented by balanced, unique rate. Leonardo Da Vinci once studied for weeks the spirals of a snail to find this rate. That spiral was amazing and it would reduce in a very special rate. The same rate is present in the harmony of all the living beings and also in the constructions.

Thus we have the number Φ (1,618 phi). Along with the number Π (pi 3,1416), these two proportions are used in the harmonic balance of nature.

Therefore we must analyze human life in this planet. Since we are affected by unique life experiences, religious or financial, in various corners of the planet, we have a feeling of separation that compromises the balance and the availability of resources.

Since we know the proportional balance of nature, we believe we should search for a social balance in name of a peaceful life. To make this happen, it will be necessary that each human being understands percetly his or her role in this Earth, and that he or she know how to act in order to meet the best fate possible.

The hypodermic needle

As we live we go by with our hearts and livers sustaining our brains using the blood as the only link to everything. In the end, the connections happen in a salty water environment where ions can fly freely. However, even though these three organs form the triangle of our material life, they still depend on this mix of the blood to make the whole system work. Metals and ametals along with biochemical molecules are the way we work.

We are made from the water of the oceans mixed to the iron oxide of the earth. A special mixture, similar to that of Adam who also received the air to be able to breath and live. Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon and Oxygen, these are the main elements that comprise to the old Four elements, thus respectively Water, Earth, Fire and Air.

The Fire started after Adam received the Breath, which means that we all have these four elements and we are all part of the nature. Our DNA molecules also are formed by four basic elements. To know this, mankind has had to do a lot of hard work. It started with the hypodermic needle. We started to know how our blood works and we even started to take action according to the diagnosis available for different blood tests.

We got to the point where we can take a simple skin cell and change that into a stem cell and use it anywhere we want to end different kinds of diseases.

Alexander Fleming was an interesting man. Using a humble lab, full of humidity of the constant rains in the United Kingdom, he found out his culture of Staphilococci bacteria was being killed by a fungus.

Later on penicilin was being used against infections and we finally found out a way to heal ourselves from these kinds of diseases.

But before that, people in ships would eat bread with fungus to end infections. This means that the healing ways are always out there, we just need to find it from time to time.

And the cure is always with ourselves.

In the center of our sternum there is a gland called Thymus, which is responsible for part of your immune system. Our body is able to end any infections, we just do not know how to easily heal ourselves. Now everyone knows that healing starts with the mind. We now need to learn how to think in order to get totally healed. This is the first step to make your organism change the way it works.

In the first half of the 20th century, a technique has shown that it could heal different kinds of diseases. Autohemotherapy cured infections by virus or bacteria, cancer, high blood pressure, inflammations and many other diseases. It is a simple way to improve your body immune system and make it end with inflamatory processes, infections, neoplasic cells and hormonal unbalance.

The hypodermic needle, after penicilin, started to put in people's blood different drugs to make them feel better. Some of them are really important and they work great, but our own blood has its own properties.

But you can trigger that process with autohemotherapy. Since we found out the hypodermic needle in order to research ourselves from outside to the inside, we can think that healing process can also happen starting from the inside.

Our mind can trigger any healing process you might want. It may be difficult to consider this, but it is possible. Mind has its own ways to make it happen, therefore it is up to each of us to find it how can we trigger our own improvement out of mind.

The hypodermic needle is still important. Through that we use medicines to end pain and suffering of different types. But it is also a tool that helps us find how we are made of. And in the end, after doing this, we might discover that we had everything at hand. Or even better: in mind.

Now we are still looking for the cure of many diseases and not fighting the causes, which is the most important part of health. We still eat french fries and bacon and eggs with a lot of satured oil to satisfy our mind instead of satisfying our body. Our mind needs to understand that fruits and vegetables are the way to change ourselves from within. Vitamins from nature comes in different ways and they can change a person's body totally.

The point of this article is to say that we can change our mind and we can do what we want. It is just necessary to focus in what you want once and then allow it to happen.

Autohemotherapy stimulates the macrofagus cells in a different, regenerative way. It is yet to be proven if it is (or if it is not) a shot of fresh stem cells in a unique, magic shot. It could prove that we have all we need inside of us, but it could also show that we, living beings, are magical. For years we have been using animals like horses to create vaccines to different kinds of diseases. It has been there for a while now. It is not something new, but it is something that will start to be researched again and again. Now we know more and more about our blood and about how cells work. This kind of knowledge will probably show us how ignorant we were of our own conditions.

I am not inviting anyone to try this. Always investigate first and be safe. In the end, what is yet to be found is if mind can trigger this process. This would explain a lot of miracle healings that happen from time to time. And also, find why some people have a way to heal other people by providing them a stimulation that makes our body regenerate itself.

The health of the future will be based in information of the causes, regeneration of our body and improvement in the quality of food. Then the hypodermic needle will not be so necessary.

Spheres

For ages
the dust of stars
becomes spheres.

We are
made of spheres
from the dust of stars.

One day
part will become a star
and part will go where we are